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He may have appearance bonuses in his contract that the club are trying to avoid paying. Not playing him because he wouldn't take a pay-cut is pointless. Trying to force him out by not playing him is also pointless. His agent has reiterated that Özil will see out his contract.
It wouldn’t surprise me with the club tbf. They done the same with Aaron Ramsey and forced him out the club. RVP mentioned something similar in the interview (I skipped it to the part he discusses the contract issues) below as to why he left Arsenal as they didn’t offer him a deal hopefully the same doesn’t happen with Aubameyang.
I’m not too fussed with Özil as he’s finished but the club has been making a lot of mistakes with our wages structure. RVP should have been on 200k+ a week for how key he was to our team but Gazidis ******* up.